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>book is 300 pages long
>has no chapters

>> No.17137133

>>17136858
since I'm reading books as an adult I realized that many books don't have names for chapters, i thought it's something necessary

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>book is 300 pages long
>has no pages

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>>17136858
>download ebook
>it's 400+ pages
>get more than halfway through before I realize ALL whitespace formatting has been scrubbed, no chapters, no double line breaks no nothing.

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>>17136858
>chapter is so long that it can be a novella
Fuck Melmoth the Wanderer.

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>book is 500 pages long
>It has no paragraphs

>> No.17137590

>>17136858
>book is almost 800 pages long
>continuous stream of dialogue without chapters

>> No.17137605

>>17136858
>legitimately buy an ebook.
>no proper paragraph separation.
>POV change is not visible

>> No.17137995

>book is 800 pages long
>has no words

>> No.17138007

>>17137486
God dammit there are way too many books that pay no attention to chapter length, even after Don Quixote set the standard.

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>first chapter is 150 pages
>Only one paragraph long

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>chapter title is 50 pages long
>contains footnotes

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>book is

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>>17136858
I love this bougie nigga like you wouldn't believe